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Prions in yeast and other fungi
Main article: Fungal prions
Prion-like proteins that behave in a similar way to PrP are found naturally in some fungi and non-mammalian animals.
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Prion-like proteins may not always be harmful.
Prion Diseases
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Protein infectious agent associated with several neurological diseases (scrapie; kuru; Creutzfeld-Jakob syndrome; Alzheimer's disease). Each disease has a different prion.
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Prion diseases, also referred to as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, are characterized by the deposition of an abnormal isoform of the prion protein in the brain.
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Prions — short for proteinaceous infectious particle — are infectious self-reproducing protein structures.
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prion
An infectious form of protein that may increase in number by converting related proteins to more prions.
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prions Infectious agents composed only of one or more protein molecules without any accompanying genetic information.
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Prion: An infectious agent thought to be composed solely of protein. Term is derived from "Protein infectious agent".
Prokaryote: A single-celled organism with a simple internal structure and no nucleus. Bacteria and archaebacteria are prokaryotes.
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Prion. See Proteinaceous infectious particle. Probe. A sequence of DNA or RNA, labeled or marked with a radioactive isotope, used to detect the presence of complementary nucleotide sequences. See Nucleotide. Prokaryote.
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(Zoöl.) (a) Any one of several species of large Antarctic petrels which follow whaling vessels, to feed on the blubber and floating oil; especially, Prion turtur (called also blue petrel), and Pseudoprion desolatus.
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We are globalizing meat production, so that we've seen the foot and mouth disease and the prions with the mad cow disease from Europe. That is becoming a problem more and more all around the world. The United States has exported in food products E.
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Edward Marcotte (University of Texas at Austin): University of California at Los Angeles, David Eisenberg. Structural Analysis of Prion Proteins.
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Mutual symbiosis between clownfish of the genus Amphiprion that dwell among the tentacles of tropical sea anemones.
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